Trust cues fostering initial consumers' trust: Usability inspection of nutrition and healthcare websites

Yin Leng Theng*, Lynette Ying Qin Goh, May Thet Tin, Rajkumar Sopra, Senthil Kumar, Praveen Kumar

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The number of nutrition and healthcare websites increasing dramatically has prompted concerns over the quality of information found in these websites. How do nutrition and healthcare sites fare in fostering trust in consumers? Through reviews of trust and design literatures, we created a checklist incorporating a 5-dimension framework of design factors (graphic, structure, content, social, system) affecting trust cues. Next, we conducted a usability inspection on implementation of trust cues on 86 (30 healthcare, 31 nutrition and 25 healthcare & nutrition) websites. Our findings suggest that Graphics-Driven trust cues were implemented most to foster consumers' trust, with the Socially-Driven trust cues being the least implemented. This is on-going work. The paper concluded with implementations for improvement in the design of trust cues to foster initial consumers' trust in nutrition and healthcare websites.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIHI'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
Pages807-811
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, IHI'12 - Miami, FL, United States
Duration: Jan 28 2012Jan 30 2012

Publication series

NameIHI'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium

Conference

Conference2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, IHI'12
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami, FL
Period1/28/121/30/12

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

Keywords

  • Content analysis
  • Design
  • Healthcare
  • Nutrition
  • Trust
  • Trust cues
  • Usability

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